Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-02-03


sold in 1886, besides what the family
used, enough to net $3.50. He has
the cows MIXED by the same hand
all the season as rule. He told in
an amusing way, how woman of
his town who churned only once a
week got an ambition to try the Chi
cago market, because she knew she
made better butter than was made
on Mr.. Spensley's farm, and how
she looked when the returns brought
her but % cents for her butter OF
course her conoeit sought refuge by
charging swindling, and she was
swindled-by herself.
Two self.appointed guardians, par
excellence, of the tax payers of Iowa
county are the Dodgeville Sun and
the Ridgeway Enterprise This
pair now are narrowed TO the utter
most depths of their philanthropic
souls, by the fact that the County
Board at its January session, by an
almost unanimous vote, decided to
postpone consideration of PROPOSE.
tion to let the job printing of the
county upon bids, until the next an
nual meeting. Before the Suns
light blessed the county, or Ridge
way had developed its Enterprise, a
similar proposition came before the
Board. The county printing was
awarded on what committee
deemed the lowest of three bids.
Result; The county paid about taoo
hundred dollars more for printing
during the year under that lo,oeSt
BID, than during the year preceding.
Most of the members of the Board
this year were conversant with the
workings of the bidding system as
shown above, and very naturally
feared a like result, therefore the
great unanimity with which the
Board concluded to postpone the
matter. We are willing to place
our thirty years experience in the
printing business against the supe-
rior wisdom and patriotism of the
Sun and Enterprise, on the PROPOSE
ton that, had either of the two bids
submitted to the Board at its late
session been accepted, nothing
: would have been saved TO the
county, and much might have been
lost in quality and satisfaction OF
work. There is no honest com
plant that the printers of the county
overeharge for their work. To as
sumo that they do, and that unrea
sonable bills are allowed, is to i'm
pugn not only the printers, but all
the county officers who order the
printing and certify to the bills, and
the County Board that allows the
claims. So far as the TRIBUNE is
concerned, we know that the county
pays no more than other customers
for like work.
Hon. J. w. Rewey, simply be
cause he moved the postponement
of the proposition, is selected at
target for the spleen of the pair OF
public guardians referred to. Then
venom cannot injure Mr.. Rewey in
Iowa county, throughout the length
and breadth of which he is honored
and trusted to a degree that his
maligners can never hope to reach
The imputation of discreditabie ac-
ton by Mr.. Rewey as member OF
the Legislature of 1881, needs nc
other refutation than the fact that,
with his record fresh in the minds
Of his CONSTITUENCIES he was the suc-
ceeding year renominated and re-
elected by handsome majority.
The Dodgeville Chronicle, which
was one of the two bidders for the
county printing under the Convey
resolution, approves the action OF
postponement, and defends the
Board and Mr.. Rewey, as follows:
Mr.. Convey, member OF the
country board, offered resolution
which he had been advised would
be in the interest of public economy
in the matter of printing. Mr..
Rewey, another member, could not
detect in the resolution any ele-
ments Of economy in direction, and
moved that the matter Of printing
for the county be postponed until
l.